Paek benjamin



(Nd Model.) I

- P. BENJAMIN.

WIRE BALE TIE.

No. 311222. Patented Jan. 2'7, 1885.

UNITED STATES PATENT Erica.

PARK BENJAMIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WIRE BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,222, dated January 27, 1885.

Application filed August 8,1584. (N0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PARK BENJAMIN, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WVire Bale Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to a wire bale-tie consisting of a band of wire having formed upou it at one end a closed loop or eye, in which eye is secured the opposite end of the band when the latter is in place upon the bale; and it consists more particularly in the construction of the said closed loop or eye, hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, and 2 show the successive positions of the wire during bending to form the closed loop or eye, and Fig. 3 shows the eye completed.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

I form the eye by bending the wire band near its end to form what is nautically known as a clove-hitch, the same being composed of two loops or half -hitches, A and B, Figs. 1 and 2. In the loop A the part O is brought under the standing part D of the wire, and in the loop B the part 0 is carried over the end or free portion E of the wire. The loop Figures 1 B is then moved sidewise over the loop A, as

indicated in Fig. 2, and the parts of said loops are made to coincide, as represented in Fig. 3.

In Fig. 3 it will be seen that the part F, which is common to both loops, becomes jammed between the parts E and D whenever strain is applied to the eye-as when the opposite end of the band, after the latter is placed upon the bale, is secured thereinand that the greater the strain the more tightly will the part F become sojammed. The free end E may be secured, as shown in Fig. 3, by twisting with the standing part D.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a wire baletie, and at one end thereof, a closed loop or eye consisting of a clovehitch formed of the wire of said tie, substantially as described.

2. In a wire bale'tie, and at one end thereof, a closed loop or eye formed by making the loops A and B in the wire of said tie and placing the loop B over and upon the loop A, substantially as described.

PARK BENJAMIN.

Witnesses: v

T. J. KEANE, JOHN J. BOWEN. 

